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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00942
Title: Calf Woman, in regalia beside her models of a sacred Mandan earth lodge and a drying rack
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the front: V-39-1912, which corresponds to numbering of Minnesota Historical Society Wilson photos. On the back: col. 86-942, and the details noted in the summary.
Summary: In a grassy field with a line of river trees in the distance, Calf Woman stands wearing traditional regalia by the models of a sacred Mandan lodge and a drying rack. She and Black Chest collaborated on the construction. Her light fabric dress is decorated with elk teeth at the shoulders, and a long quillwork and hair pipe breastplate reaches nearly to the ground in front of her. Also known as Mrs. Lone Fight, she is the mother of Arthur Mandan. The top of the model lodge is flatter than an ordinary earth lodge dwelling, and the slanted poles along the front facade create an uncurved wall. In front of the lodge model is a slightly bigger scale model of a traditional Mandan drying platform with a notched ladder. Calf Woman was one of the informants for the research work of the Wilson brothers. Taken in 1912 during the Gilbert L. Wilson ethnographic study of the Mandan and Hidatsa living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and marked with a number associated with his collection housed in the Minnesota Historical Society.
Red ID: PH_I_145999 Image ID: 101473 Image Notes: 00086-00942-back

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00942
Title: Calf Woman, in regalia beside her models of a sacred Mandan earth lodge and a drying rack
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the front: V-39-1912, which corresponds to numbering of Minnesota Historical Society Wilson photos. On the back: col. 86-942, and the details noted in the summary.
Summary: In a grassy field with a line of river trees in the distance, Calf Woman stands wearing traditional regalia by the models of a sacred Mandan lodge and a drying rack. She and Black Chest collaborated on the construction. Her light fabric dress is decorated with elk teeth at the shoulders, and a long quillwork and hair pipe breastplate reaches nearly to the ground in front of her. Also known as Mrs. Lone Fight, she is the mother of Arthur Mandan. The top of the model lodge is flatter than an ordinary earth lodge dwelling, and the slanted poles along the front facade create an uncurved wall. In front of the lodge model is a slightly bigger scale model of a traditional Mandan drying platform with a notched ladder. Calf Woman was one of the informants for the research work of the Wilson brothers. Taken in 1912 during the Gilbert L. Wilson ethnographic study of the Mandan and Hidatsa living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and marked with a number associated with his collection housed in the Minnesota Historical Society.
Red ID: PH_I_145999 Image ID: 107159 Image Notes: 00086-00942

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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